The company took seven years to reach the point of preparing for a launch, and it is not clear what impact today’s scrapped launch will have on future efforts. The inaugural flight of the rocket – nicknamed GLHF for “Good Luck, Have Fun” – was not scheduled to carry a commercial payload, but would have instead carried a failed 3D-printed rocket part from a previous attempt to build a craft. Josh Brost, Relativity Space’s senior vice president of revenue, had called the Terran 1 “by far the largest 3D-printed structure that’s ever been assembled” and said the launch represented an opportunity to test “a whole bunch of things all at once”. The company has yet to announce a new launch date. The 35-metre-tall (115-foot) Terran 1 rocket, 85 percent of which was fabricated from a 3D printer, was set to lift off from a United States Space Force base launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, but was cancelled about one minute before launch due to a temperature issue. The launch was seen as a key test of the US company’s novel strategy for cutting manufacturing costs. The debut launch of a 3D-printed rocket built by California-based startup Relativity Space was cancelled at the last minute on Wednesday.

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